by Swobu_AB » Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:23 pm
Samanna it is not just the uselessness of the Focus effect it is the items meaningful stats that are poor.
By meaningful stats I mean HP/Mana/AC Shielding, spell shield, stun resist etc.
Avoidance is the last thing shammies at the level where this item drops need any more of, well last after Regen 6 which is utterly and totally worthless since 1. Most shammies at DP raiding levels have maxed regen and 2. Regen is fundamentally pointless with the damage dished out in events we take part in.
Essentially this item becomes a 330 hp/mana earring with no other benefits and as such our class only item in this expansion is a lump of junk. There are better earrings available as pointed out at the start of this thread which plonk the entire shaman only class item firmly into perma rot status.
Yes to non top end raiders this item is kick arse, but to those of us that actually see these things drop (2 on one Hatchet 4 on another 4 and none on one) it is not good enough and needs to be addressed. If I was to equip this earring I would lose one of 2 useful focus effects and gain a bit of HP/mana, the other shammies in Raging Fury feel the same way, so far 6 of these have rotted for us and none of the 4 raiding shammies have bought one.
Incidentally since this thread started I have obtained the Lingering Sloth spell and situationally it's OK even quite handy, however with my existing beneficial buff extension item and AA's the duration is fine so a specific spell buff duration extension is utterly worthless unless it was by a massive margin like 500% extension. If the focus upped the strength of the slow so I never had to bother slow debuffing mobs (daydream) then again it would be useful.
As our class Rep to the devs and the item devs in particular you really should be aware that our demi plane class item is even worse than many of the other classes and needs to be drastically improved. I do hope that you begin to campaign on our behalf to get this item improved.